ST’s foreign bureaus outline how these power players will approach the new year. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Russia ‘drafts 180,000 convicts’ as Zelensky says decisive Trump can stop Putin - Trump ‘capable of stopping Putin or, to put it more fairly, help us stop Putin’, says Zelensky ...

Russian forces are advancing in the east, slowly but surely, and they are shrinking Ukraine’s partial hold of the border ...

Authorities suspended the execution of the warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after facing resistance from his security detail at his residence in Seoul.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he was preparing to re-establish diplomatic ties with Syria, less than a month ...

Recently, the Financial Times revealed that Russia had developed plans targeting civilian and military sites in Japan and South Korea in the event of a war with NATO. Western sources provided ...

Beijing has yet to announce the closing ceremony for its "Year of Friendship" with Pyongyang, a possible signal of ...

Although the precise details of the arrangement have not been made public, there has been considerable media coverage of North Korea’s dispatch of combat troops to Russia to support Vladimir Putin’s ...

From Sydney to Mumbai to Nairobi, communities around the world began welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces ...

North Korean President Kim Jong Un on Monday declared a "new high" in relations between North Korea and Russia and hoped for ...